Cholera + John Snow
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- Created on: 11-11-16 20:58
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- Cholera + John Snow
- Cholera
- Cholera is spread through infected water
- Victims of cholera suffered vomiting and diarrhoea - death occurred quickly after infection
- John Snow
- Took the handle off a pump to see if people still died
- Snow would interview people to find the cause of cholera
- Showed that theory of miasma is incorrect
- Society
- At the time of cholera laissez faire was believed
- People at the time thought bad air affected the water and that is how the poor got sick
- Cholera
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